When I was twenty-one years old, I wrote my own will. Although I had no assets and nearly no earthly possessions, I still had to divvy up what little Continue Reading
Family
Blueberries and Bracelets
Adam was not so comfortably settled into his fighting position after consolidating on the objective following the early-morning assault. He was glad Continue Reading
Stop Hurting and Retraumatizing Gold Star Parents
This first appeared in The Havok Journal October 27, 2016. the issues discussed are just as relevant a decade later. When Congressman Frederica Continue Reading
The FNG
During Ranger School, a young Lieutenant who aspired to be a Green Beret asked Quint how someone short in stature like himself made it through SF Continue Reading
Fifty Cub Scouts and a Cobra
By an anonymous USAF Brat In 1965, PACAF (Pacific Air Forces) decided that it would be a good idea to set up a theater-specific survival school for Continue Reading
Cub Scouts the Air Force Way
By an Anonymous USAF Brat Back in the 1970s, Cub Scouts were a part of virtually every young boy’s existence. It was almost a rite of passage. Some Continue Reading
December 19
By an Anonymous USAF Brat It was cold. Not the New England kind of cold but the bitter, biting, wind-driven cold on an overcast day that fit what Continue Reading
All Those Crosses
All those white crosses stand in a rowon nameless hills in Europe,in fields of France,on beaches too.All those white stones stand in a rowon the green Continue Reading
The lessons I learned in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery
(Where I met the ghosts of the living, but not of the dead) Arlington National Cemetery is a place that exists only in the imagination or deep Continue Reading
The Conflict at Home
I partially credit Martin Luther King Jr. with saving my husband’s life. Sitting in his running Subaru in our garage, loaded gun in hand, Mark Continue Reading
Demons of Our Actions
By Trey Tull Our lives are composed of the consequences of our actions, the good, the bad, and the neutral. I believe the pattern of life is for us Continue Reading
Afghanistan: A Woman, Just Like Me
By Kaitlyn Trevathan On Saturday, September 11, 2021, my dad shared a post reflecting on his memory of 9/11. He wrote, “In the coming hours Continue Reading